Module
Container Stuffing
How many boxes, which kind, and what goes where — with the arithmetic beside every count.
Watch demo
Drums of degreaser to ship to Korea. How many boxes, which kind, and is it HAZ?
The running product, filmed as it works — every number on screen was computed live while the camera was rolling. The voice names no number, so a re-recording can never contradict the screen.
What it produces
- Containers needed per type — 20', 40', high cube, reefer, open top, flat rack, ISO tank, flexitank
- Pallets and packages per container, by line, with a top-view floor plan
- Gross weight, cube and payload utilisation per container, and which constraint bound it
- Packages per pallet worked from carton and pallet dimensions, or taken as the planner stated
- Lines that could not be planned, named with what is missing
- HAZ or non-HAZ per box from each SKU's stated IMDG classification — UN number, class, packing group, flash point, marine pollutant, EmS — and the Multimodal Dangerous Goods Form for the shipping line in one go
A worked example
SO-2041 — 11 pallets, 704 cartons, 1 × 20' standard dry
400 × 300 × 250 mm cartons on 1,200 × 800 pallets: 8 per layer × 8 layers = 64 per pallet
floor 5,878 × 2,332 mm: 7 in a 1,200 mm strip + 4 in the remaining 1,132 mm = 11 positions
11 × 1,625 kg = 17,875 kg of 28,180 kg payload → the floor binds, not the weight
40HC would take the same 11 pallets with 30% of its cube empty — 20GP suggested
HAZ: UN 1263 PAINT, 3, PG II (12 °C c.c.), EmS F-E, S-E — 704 × steel drums, DG form ready for the line
Illustrative numbers. On your tenant the same page shows yours.
Why it is hard
The part that is not a report.
Every freight forwarder's card says eleven Euro pallets fit a twenty-foot box. What it does not say is whether your cartons make eleven pallets, whether the twelfth is the floor's fault or the payload's, or what a forty-foot high cube would leave empty. This plans it from how each material is actually packed, draws the floor, names the constraint that bound the box, and refuses a line it cannot plan rather than guessing.
Opened by the logistics manager, the planner and the supply chain manager — what each of them sees first.
Said before you ask
What we don’t do.
SIAARU decides from your records and nothing else. It carries no copy of the world’s data, states no number your systems have not, and acts in nobody’s name. Where your data does not support an answer, it says so by name rather than producing a confident one — which is the whole reason a decision taken on it holds up later.
It plans at the level a forklift loads at: pallet footprints on a floor, one carton size floor-loaded in layers, litres in a tank. Mixed loose cartons of different sizes are named rather than solved, because three-dimensional packing answered badly puts a container on the road that will not close. It needs one table most ERPs do not carry — how each material is packed — on the material_packaging template. The container catalogue is typical published numbers and is labelled as such; your own carrier sheet and road payload limit import through container_types and take precedence over it.
Where this sits
One of 36 modules, on one engine.
Container Stuffing reads the same reconciled data as everything else SIAARU runs — connected read-only to your ERP, scored on the way in, measured in SQL. How that engine works is a page of its own. The other 35 modules, each with the state it is really in and the reason where it is not switched on, are on the module list; what this one costs, and what it costs beside the rest, is on the pricing page.